Gates Explains Microsoft's Need for Yahoo

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday February 21, 2008 @03:17AM from the let-me-explan-my-need-for-a-fresh-cup-of-coffee dept.

eldavojohn writes "Perhaps it's obvious to you and perhaps you'll be pleasantly surprised by his answer but Gates revealed to CNet why Microsoft needs Yahoo. From his response, "We have a strategy for competing in the search space that Google dominates today, that we'll pursue that we had before we made the Yahoo offer, and that we can pursue without that. It involves breakthrough engineering. We think that the combination with Yahoo would accelerate things in a very exciting way, because they do have great engineers, they have done a lot of great work. So, if you combine their work and our work, the speed at which you can innovate and get things done is just dramatically more rapid. So, it's really about the people there that want to join in and create a better search, better portal for a very broad set of customers. That's the vision that's behind saying, hey, wouldn't this be a great combination.""

2 of 271 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

FIRST POST by Anonymous Coward · 2008-02-21 03:21 · Score: -1, Troll

FOR ME 2 POOP ON
Gates will bring down the US economy with this! by Anonymous Coward · 2008-02-21 06:13 · Score: -1, Troll

What an ass - Gates is going to bring down the American economy with this insane merger. Everyone will jump ship if they haven't already. What a fuckwit. So long Microsoft and with it America!
Stupid fuckers.